Using a Fada on Vodafone costs you 3 Text Messages

If you Text in Irish on Vodafone and use a fada (as in á, é, í, ó, ú) in your text message it will charge you the price of 3 Text Messages for the privilege. This is wrong and a campaign should be started at once to stop this outrageous overcharging and assault on our culture and language.

A very short text, of less than 70 characters, can include multiple fadas and still be charged as one text.

"If a customer is texting in Irish and they type the full 160 characters, a standard text message, that includes at least one fada, they will be charged for three text messages," a spokeswoman for Vodafone confirmed.

That article makes no sense.

If a text is 160 characters and a fada is used, you get charged for an extra two messages (so, at least 161 characters per fada), but if you send a text with 70 characters and one fada, the fada in that context apparently equals 90 characters or fewer.

The Spanish, French, etc manage to text in their accent-rich languages at no extra cost.

Are these speakers charged extra for using accents in their texts if not then we are being discriminated against and there must be a government and or EU action taken against the mobile phone companies to stop this scam.

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